Il-76MD-90A / Il-78M-90A
Heavy military transport aircraftUAC says production of the updated Il-76 variant was assigned to Aviastar-SP, which prepared its production capacity and later launched serial work.
Sources: UAC transport aircraft pageManufacturer catalog
Aviastar-SP
Aviastar-SP is a Ulyanovsk aircraft manufacturing plant inside United Aircraft Corporation's transport-aircraft network, best known for heavy airframe production, final assembly work, and modernization activity tied to the Il-76 family and related Russian aircraft programs.
1 weaponsAviastar-SP is the modern Ulyanovsk aircraft plant name most often used in current United Aircraft Corporation references. Public corporate sources place it inside UAC's transport-aircraft industrial chain and connect it to the Il-76MD-90A and Il-114-300 programs.
The plant gives useful context for the Il-76 family because modern Russian Il-76MD-90A production shifted from legacy Tashkent manufacture to Ulyanovsk under UAC and Ilyushin. UAC describes Aviastar-SP as the company assigned to prepare production capacity for the upgraded Il-76MD-90A, while CAPA identifies the same Ulyanovsk site as an aircraft manufacturer for commercial, transport, and military applications.
Notable Systems
Il-114-300
UAC identifies Aviastar as one of the enterprises cooperating on Il-114-300 production in the broader transport-aircraft network.
Sources: UAC Il-114-300 pageManufacturer History
Plant established in Ulyanovsk
CAPA says Aviastar-SP was established in 1976 as the Ulyanovsk Aviation Industrial Complex in Ulyanovsk, Russia.
Sources: CAPA supplier page
Il-76MD-90A production preparations began
UAC says the Russian government assigned production of the new Il-76 version to Aviastar-SP, and the company began preparing production capacity in 2009.
Sources: UAC transport aircraft page
Il-114-300 cooperation included Aviastar
UAC's Il-114-300 program materials describe Aviastar (Ulyanovsk) as part of the production cooperation for the restarted regional-aircraft program.
Sources: UAC Il-114-300 page
Predecessors
Website links
Public references for Aviastar-SP are fragmented because current corporate materials usually describe the plant through UAC and Ilyushin rather than a standalone company site. Current UAC naming and the legacy 1976 supplier reference are both retained to distinguish the modern corporate plant from the Soviet-era Ulyanovsk Aviation Industrial Complex.
Manufacturer Sources
- Official UAC websitePublisher: United Aircraft Corporation | Note: Supports the current corporate context for Aviastar-SP as part of the UAC aerospace group and the official parent-site relationship for the manufacturer. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
- UAC investors and shareholdersPublisher: United Aircraft Corporation | Note: Supports the claim that Aviastar-SP is part of the United Aircraft Corporation group and identifies the company among UAC's member enterprises. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
- Il-76MD-90A / Il-78M-90A programPublisher: United Aircraft Corporation | Note: Supports the transport-aircraft production role, the assignment of Il-76MD-90A production to Aviastar-SP, and the 2009 production-preparation milestone. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
- Il-114-300 programPublisher: United Aircraft Corporation | Note: Supports Aviastar's role in the Il-114-300 production cooperation and the broader transport-aircraft manufacturing context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
- Aviastar-SP supplier pagePublisher: CAPA - Centre for Aviation | Note: Supports the 1976 founding date, Ulyanovsk location, aircraft-manufacturing description, and the legacy Ulyanovsk Aviation Industrial Complex name. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
- Aviastar-SP plant photo, Wikimedia CommonsPublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports the reusable CC BY 2.0 image choice and confirms that the photograph depicts the Aviastar aircraft plant in Ulyanovsk. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
Produced weapons
Category
Support Equipment
Transport, logistics, recovery, command, engineering, and other enabling equipment.